OT: why do web BBS's and blogs get so slow?

[Max M]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> Max M <maxm at mxm.dk> writes:
> 
>>But the biggest problem is without a doubt a lack of caching.

> I'd like to think that a well designed system can serve dynamic pages
> almost as fast as static ones.  If the page says "Hi <username>" at
> the top, all it really needs to be doing is concatenating a few
> in-memory strings together before serving the page.

Yes. Or even faster if "Hi <username>" was two gifs that could be 
loaded. Depending on whether you are logged on or not.

     "Hi <username>" or "Log On"

Or the "personalised" information could be presented in a an iframe, or 
by a server side include.

regards Max M